17. Persons who, on 4 November 2010, act as immigration consultants within the meaning of section 1 of this Regulation may continue to do so until 2 February 2011.
At the expiry of that period, those persons must be recognized to act as immigration consultants.
However, those persons have a 12-month period following the date of their recognition to demonstrate that they meet the condition in subparagraph 4 of the first paragraph of section 4, and a 24-month period following the same date to demonstrate that they meet the condition in subparagraph 5 of the first paragraph of section 4.